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The bulk of Roosevelt's education programs were administered through New Deal agencies such as the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), the WPA, the CCC, or the National Youth Administration (NYA). While the primary goals of the TVA were controlling flooding, generating electricity, and promoting local industry, it also provided an educational program that taught TVA workers skilled trades such as carpentry, electrical work, and auto repair and trained them in engineering, domestic work, and agriculture. The WPA set up the Emergency Education Program to provide nursery schools for poor children and child-care classes for their parents, ultimately serving more than two hundred thousand children. The WPA also ran adult-education classes, which it claimed taught one million people to read and write. The WPA provided health services to millions, built school furniture, and paid for extra teachers in various school districts. Its most successful program...
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